Spending more time staring at a screen at work and even during leisure times? Besides experiencing eye strain and fatigue, you are also exposing your skin to blue light (a type of high energy visible light, or HEV), which emits from computer monitors, mobile phone screens, fluorescent lamps and the sun. We all know that UV rays can cause skin damage and aging. Do you know that blue light can penetrate deeper than UVA rays…
Continue readingIt’s completely alright to lose 50 to 100 strands of hair per day. But if you lose anything more than that, you should start to get worried, and look for ways to stop the hair fall problem and to promote new hair growth. Let’s use Ayurveda to take a holistic look at haircare. The basic principle of Ayurveda is that the body is governed by three energies—Vata (air + ether), Pitta (fire + water) and…
Continue readingSkin pigmentation arises due to irregular deposition of melanin in the skin. The factors may be genetic or may be activated by external and more controllable circumstances. Melanin is deposited in the skin by melanocytes. The health of melanocytes is key to almost all pigmentation issues. Pigmentation concerns can be broken into hypopigmentation (light patches) and hyperpigmentation (dark patches). The patches may be large (e.g. vitiligo) or they may be barely perceptible. There are more…
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